About

SpiderForest Webcomic Anthology

$6,039

pledged of $5,000 goal

172

backers

The SpiderForest Webcomic Collective was founded in 2004 to be a home and collaborative community for quality, creator-owned webcomics of all genres. Together, we promote each other, help one another hone our crafts, collaborate on comics and art projects, and create a safe, positive online environment for webcomic creators to learn and grow.

This Kickstarter is to fund an offset print run of our first collective anthology! Our creators have come together and created 20 brand new short standalone comics in a variety of genres, from fantasy to cyberpunk to surreal, all incorporating spiders or forests in some way.

Cover lines by Mathieu Moyen, colours by Ewa U

Page count: 132 (or more, if we hit our stretch goals!)

Size: 6.5 inches by 10 inches

Binding: Perfect-bound

Paper: 70lb matte

$1 - THANKS! Your name will appear on a thank-you page at the end of the book.

$5 - THE DIGITAL BOOK: a PDF version of the book for your e-reader of choice!

$20 - THE BOOK: a physical copy of the anthology, in all of its papery glory!

$25 - DIGITAL DELUXE BUNDLE: a PDF of the book and loads of extra digital content:

By Sophie Pfrötzschner (Soul's Journey): A patrol of guards gets trapped like flies in a spider's web.

By Monica N. Galvan (Moonslayer): A sage turns to dark magic to save the woman she loves.

By Varethane (Chirault): While camping out, Teeko deals with an eight-legged visitor.

By Mathieu Moyen (6Commando): Man meets machine in a battle on the Moon.

By Star Prichard (Castoff): Vector must learn to face his fears on a journey through the woods.

By Sidney Maris Hargrave (Heracles Knot): A wanderer, a bag of magic oil, and cacti.

By Leah Potyondy-Edens (Arbalest): A young woman decides that you don't need a temperate climate to have nice trees.

By A. Laraine Steele (The Ferrin): 3 kids, one intiation dare, one spiderlady, and maybe a snake.

At the moment we're planning to print a small offset run, but the quantity of books can be expanded if the campaign does well, and we may be able to start adding fun extras if we meet our goal-- including new stories from other SpiderForest creators like Colbyfromage of Lintier and Delphina of Sombulus!

Risks and challenges

We have narrowed down a few reputable printers and gotten quotes; we will approach depending on the size of our print run needs, and we will work with them and with a prepress coordinator to ensure the paper and printing quality is to a professional standard. A number of our members have experience with printing similar books, and we have every confidence that we can make this happen!